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ECtHR Finds Inspection of Bank Statements Violated Rights
December 07, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") held that a Portuguese prosecutor's consultation of a lawyer's bank statements during an investigation for tax fraud violated the lawyer's right to respect for private life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Greece Receives Threats of Schengen Suspension
December 04, 2015
The BBC reports that government officials have informally threatened Greece with a suspension of its membership in the passport-free European travel area the Schengen Zone in response to the country's alleged failure to adequately deal with an influx of migrants.
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CoE Criticizes Hungarian Response to Migrants
December 04, 2015
Council of Europe ("CoE") Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has said that the response of Hungary to the influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa "falls short" based on the government's criminalization of undocumented migration and return of many of the migrants to Serbia.
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CoE Seeks Increased Scrutiny of Migrant Rights
December 04, 2015
Warning of ill treatment of migrants at border crossings and in migrant camps, Secretary General of the Council of Europe ("CoE") Thorbjørn Jagland has announced that the CoE is examining ways in which it can increase its monitoring of the human rights of migrants and refugees entering CoE member countries.
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Belgium Seeks "European CIA"
December 03, 2015
AFP reports that following the Paris terror attacks, Prime Minister of Belgium Charles Michel and European Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos have called for a pan-European equivalent to the US Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") to put together information on radicals and, in the words of Michel, "unmask those with hostile intentions."
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